Why I’m Unplugging From Location Based Services Until The Privacy Issue Is Resolved
Convergence Of Smart Phone Affordability And Broad Network Access Drives Growth In Location Based Services I’ve been a big fan of location based services (LBS). In fact, many of you have followed my whereabouts on Yelp, Tripit, and other integrated Twitter services. As many of you know, location based services take your geographical position from [...]
The Superphone is the New Computer
The HTC Incredible was the best Android superphone – for about a month, until the HTC EVO took over…only to be dethroned by the Motorola Droid X. But that’s history now, we’re in the middle of the Samsung Galaxy S invasion now: Vibrant, Captivate, Fascinate … just about all major carriers offer their own flavor. [...]
NTP is the New SCO
NTP, the shell company whose only business is to extract ransom from real businesses does not sit on the $600 they extorted from RIM. They are now suing just about all the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, LG and Motorola. Is NTP the new SCO? Related posts: NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others [...]
Love Respect
New iPhone released It is a massive success Yet people complain For all its presumed flaws, the new iPhone is an absolutely amazing experiment in industrial design and ecosystem reshaping. It’s bold, slick, gorgeous. It makes me wonder what the world would be like if all surrounding objects had been designed with the same level [...]
Quality suffers even more on iPhone 4 videos uploaded to MobileMe
Following up on yesterday’s post I just tried uploading a 720p video from my iPhone 4 to Apple’s own MobileMe service. Disappointingly, the uploaded video was downsized to 568×320 from its original 1280×720 resolution and compressed from 12.9MB to 983KB. The resulting loss of quality was, needless to say, significant. What I want is a [...]
Quality suffers on YouTube videos uploaded directly from iPhone
Since iPhone 4 can now capture 720p videos, I wondered if uploading them directly from the Camera app to YouTube would result in any loss of quality compared to syncing the iPhone with a Mac and then uploading from there….
Forrester Full of Balooney
I had to laugh when I read about a new Forrester report that claims “curation” is a proven model for success based on the iPhone market. The analyst is arguing that less choice is better. When you have 200K applications available and the app developers are complaining about the noise levels they have to get [...]
iPhone? Android? It’s All Irrelevant when you Can’t Get a Signal
Will iPhone users move to Verizon? – goes the speculation, based on a study published @ Fortune showing AT&T drop calls 3 times as frequently as Verizon. From my vantage point even dropped calls would be a luxury – meaning you can get a strong enough signal to place calls in the first place. Apparently [...]
